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Of crime & criminality : the use of theory in everyday life / Sally Simpson, editor.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: Thousand Oaks : Sage Publications, 2000.Description: 1 online resource (260 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781452264813
  • 1452264813
Other title:
  • Of Crime and criminality
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 364
LOC classification:
  • HV6018 .O3 2000
Online resources:
Contents:
Differential association theory and female crime / Peggy C. Giordano and Sharon Mohler Rockwell -- Feminist theories of women's crime / Jody Miller -- Racial hoaxes / Katheryn K. Russell -- The war on crime as hegemonic strategy / Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson -- The systemic theory of neighborhood crime rates / Robert J. Bursik -- Strain theory and school crime / Robert Agnew -- The dramatization of evil : reacting to juvenile delinquency during the 1990s / Ruth Triplett.
The social control of corporate criminals / Sally S. Simpson, M. Lyn Exum and N. Craig Smith -- Whithter the beast? : the role of emotions in a rational choice theory of crime / Jeffrey Bouffard, M. Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster -- Understanding illicit drug use / Paul Mazerolle -- The routine activity approach as a general crime theory / Marcus Felson.
Summary: This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.
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This collection of original essays is an innovative, effective way to teach crime theory to undergraduates. Each essay brings an important crime theory to life by applying that theory to a current crime event or topic of interest to students. An original introductory essay by Don Gibbons explains the origins of these different explanations for criminal behavior, and how they are similar to and different from one another.

Differential association theory and female crime / Peggy C. Giordano and Sharon Mohler Rockwell -- Feminist theories of women's crime / Jody Miller -- Racial hoaxes / Katheryn K. Russell -- The war on crime as hegemonic strategy / Katherine Beckett and Theodore Sasson -- The systemic theory of neighborhood crime rates / Robert J. Bursik -- Strain theory and school crime / Robert Agnew -- The dramatization of evil : reacting to juvenile delinquency during the 1990s / Ruth Triplett.

The social control of corporate criminals / Sally S. Simpson, M. Lyn Exum and N. Craig Smith -- Whithter the beast? : the role of emotions in a rational choice theory of crime / Jeffrey Bouffard, M. Lyn Exum, and Raymond Paternoster -- Understanding illicit drug use / Paul Mazerolle -- The routine activity approach as a general crime theory / Marcus Felson.

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